Jared Isaacman planned two more missions with SpaceX, including Starship’s first crewed flight. Trump has thrown his Polaris Program into question.
SpaceX and its go-to billionaire-turned-private-astronaut seem to be going their separate ways, at least for the next four years.
Jared Isaacman has flown two SpaceX missions to space and is slated to fly two more.
However, Isaacman may no longer fly those missions now that President-elect Donald Trump has tapped him to lead NASA.
Isaacman is the founder and CEO of a payments-processing company called Shift4, but he’s more famous for conducting the world’s first commercial spacewalk in September.
The spacewalk was the main feature of the first mission of the Polaris Program, which Isaacman started in partnership with SpaceX to supercharge the company’s human-spaceflight capabilities as it aims for the moon and Mars.
The program is scheduled to fly two future missions, including the first human flight aboard SpaceX’s Starship mega-rocket.
